Neckband and attached-collar ironing machine



Nov. 13, 1928. 1,691,106

D. H. BENJAMIN NECKBAND AND ATTACHED COLLAR IRONING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1926 Patented i 13, 1928.

UNITED STATES tems PATENT OFF/ICE.

DANA H. BENJAMIN, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

NECKBAND AND ATTACHED-COLLAR IRONING MACHINE.

Application filed February This invention relates to ironing machines, and more particularly to the class of ironing presses specially designed for ironing the necltbands, including collars if attached, of shirts.

In the commercial laundering of shirts it has been found expedient to iron the neckband, including the collar when attached, as a separate operation preliminary to ironin the remaini portions of each shirt; and presses have been devised and are at present widelyused for performing this operation. Such press necessarily must be provided with workholding and ironing surfaces suflicient to receive and cover a collar attached to a ecliband; yet since a large number of shirts to be laundered are in the neckbandstyl'e without collar, during a correspondingly large portion of the time only that part of the workholdingand ironing surfaces covering the neclrband alone are required.

It is the object of my invention to provide for this varying requirement of the work-.

holding and ironing surfaces in a neckband ironing press in such a manner that the highest efficiency of the machine is not inn paired when used for ironing either attached collars, or neckbands alone. nature of the invention will be apparent from the following description referring to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, its upper part in section, of a neclrband ironing press in which my invention has been incorporated; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the upper portion of the press shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the padded member, corresponding to Fig. 2, and showing the manner in which the invention is used.

In the drawings 1 represents theframe of the press, its upper portion being chambered and :iorming an arched yoke like head 2 through which steam is circulated, the head being polished upon its bottom surface. Mounted upon the rod 6 longitudinally slidable in the frame below the yoke 2 is a padded buck or work support 3 normally maintained in the position shown in Fig. 1 by the spring l acting through the lever 5, the end of which is joined with the end of the rod 6 by means of a clevis 7 fast upon the rod and serving also to limit its forward motion. At the base of the press is a pedal 8 by means of which, acting through the toggle joint 9, the buck The exact 18, 1926. Serial No. 89,167.

may be moved vertically to contactwith the under or ironing surface of the yoke The buck is nuiintainid in this ironing position by the latch pedal 10 which when the pedal 8 is lowered engages it until released by the operator'of thepress, the latch pedal being urged clockwise (Fig. 1) by means not shown.

Operation of the press is as follows: Starting with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1, the neclrband of a shirt to beironed is laid out and sn'loothedupon thebuck 3, whichis then pushed back under the head 2 by means of the handle 11, and the operator by depressing. the pedal 8 until latched. by pedal 10, raises the necltband to contact against the hot ironing surface of the head. After suiiicient time for ironing has elapsed, the operator trips the latch pedal 10, releasing the buck from the head, and allowing the spring 4i to return the buck to the position shown, whereupon the shirt with the neckband ironed is removed.

hat has thus far been described is old in the art, typical of many neclrban'd presses, and is included for a more clear understand ing of the operation of my invention, which comprises a mechanism for optionally limitng the forward travel of the buck 3.

. Pivotally mounted upon a stud 12 projecting from the rear of the frame of the press, is a belle-rank lever 13, one of itsarms terminating in the handle 1%, the other in a U shaped section 16 extending from the rear of the frame parallel with the rod 6 and spaced from the stud 12 so that the rod 6 is in its path of swing. A stud 15 limits the throw of the lever 13 in one direction, and the rod 6 in the other.

The longitudinal dimensions of the buck 3 and of the ironing surface of the yoke 2 are necessarily suflicient for ironing a collar at tached to a shirt, and when the press is operated on acollar attached type of shirt, the operation isas hereinbefore described, the

buck portion exposed in non-registering 13081 the outward motion of the buck 3, to such an extent that onlythe then-required area of, the buck will be exposed beyond the yoke.

This greatly shortens the longitudinal travel of the buck, thus shortening the period of each ironing operation. Also, slnce the front edge of the buclr serves as an aligning guide in placing the shirt to be ironed, the

means of the handle let throws the lever 13 from the position shown in Fi s. 1 and 2 to the dotted position of F 3 before tripping the pedal 10 to release the collar from the ironing surface. When released, the buck returns forward only suiiciently tor the neckband to be placed upon it and consequently the operator need move the handle 11 only the corresponding short distance inward before again depressing thepedal 8 to clamp the press in ironing position.

If a collar is attached to the next shirt to be ironed, the operator then returns the lever 13 to the position of Figs. 1 and 2, whereupon whenreleased, the buck 3 is returned outward to the position shown.

It has been found that my invention not only considerably shortens the average time required in ironing shirts, but also improves the quality of work by obviating the difficulty heretofore encountered in properly aligning. a neckband shirt upon a press of collar attached capacity. 7

Having thus illustrated and described my invention, what I claim is: 1

1. In a machine oi the class described, a.

pair of ironing members relatively movable to open and close, and to and from registry, and means torad ustably limiting said movement from registry, to expose portions of the buck ironing member adapted to receive a shirt neclrband with or without attached collar, whereby after return to registry the ironing members will close upon the neckband only or neckband with attached collar.

In testimony whereof I hereby aiiix my signature.

DANA H. BENJAMIN. 

